Australia\u2019s batting coach, Michael di Venuto, heavily criticized the Edgbaston pitch after the first Ashes Test against England.<\/p>\n
Michael described it as the flattest pitch he had ever seen, lacking movement, bounce, and pace. Despite the match going down to the wire, many players, including James Anderson, expressed dissatisfaction with the docile nature of the track.<\/p>\n
Di Venuto acknowledged the need for adaptability but expressed concern over the slow nature of the pitch. Although Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne had rare failures in the game, Di Venuto downplayed their performance and emphasized their commitment to improvement through intense net sessions.<\/p>\n
Labuschagne suffered a finger injury during practice, but he continued batting, indicating that it didn\u2019t significantly affect him. Di Venuto praised Labuschagne and Smith\u2019s self-sufficiency as their own best coaches, while offering occasional guidance.<\/p>\n
The batting coach also lauded Pat Cummins\u2019 heroic batting display and the resilience shown by lower-order batsmen Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland. Di Venuto remains focused on optimizing performance and adapting to varying pitch conditions as the Ashes series progresses.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the flattest pitch I have ever seen, day one in particular,\u201d said Di Venuto. \u201cThe lack of movement, bounce, pace. Very slow. Even county wickets don\u2019t get that flat or dead. As the game went on the swing increased with overheads. We saw the game liven up when we had the ball for eight overs one evening. But it was a dead old pitch.\u201d (Cricbuzz)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia\u2019s batting coach, Michael di Venuto, heavily criticized the Edgbaston pitch after the first Ashes Test against England. Michael described\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2077,2315],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-edgbaston"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n